Local students will soon be getting half an hour more sleep before school, after the Education Ministry announced that from the new school year starting in 2017, high school students will be allowed to arrive at school at 8 am on at least two days per week. The new policy will now be handed to municipal authorities for clarification and implementation.

President Tsai made an appearance at an “Hour of Code” event today, in support of the nation’s efforts to develop students’ technological skills and critical thinking through computer programming. Tsai didn’t come in with much in the way of gaming talent, but still joined young students at the event in writing, and playing, her own game.

President Tsai was deep in concentration playing a soccer computer game with one of the young programmers at the event. The student even turned teacher, after seeing Tsai was having difficulty figuring out the controls.

The 2017 International Conference on Teacher Education and Educational Innovations: Retrospect and Prospect (TEEI 2017) will be held on March 18, 2017 in Taoyuan, Taiwan. Organized by the Teacher Education Center (TEC) of Ming Chuan University, TEEI 2017 aims to provide an interdisciplinary global forum for scholars, experts and participants from academia to exchange teaching/research ideas and present results of ongoing practical and scholarly inquiries in the most state-of-the-art areas of teacher education and educational innovations.

We welcome you to this year’s conferences, where we can examine change in ways that are important to each of us. What are its challenges, its complexities, and its constraints? It is electrifying to think about the wide-ranging conversations we will have as we consider how we can go about educating for change the world over.